Camelback and Market Street Bridges

The bridge river crossing at this spot is Harrisburg's oldest and most historic. First to be erected was the Camelback Bridge, known for its irregular and "rolling" covered bridge profile and the first bridge to ever cross the Susquehanna River ...

Camel Back Bridge

A covered wooden bridge, designed by Theodore Burr, was built here in 1813-17; called "Camel Back" because of its unique arch design. The structure, partly rebuilt in 1847 and 1867, was replaced after severe flood damage in 1902.

Marker is at ...

Walnut Street Bridge

This bridge, completed in 1890, is the oldest surviving structure to have spanned the Susquehanna River and is one of the largest multi-span, truss bridges ever fabricated by the nationally significant Phoenix Bridge Company. It is also the oldest metal ...

The People’s Bridge

Landmark Era - Since 1972

Built to pre-automobile specifications before the turn of the 20th Century, the People's Bridge by mid century earned the nickname, "Old Shakey," because of the noisy vibrations of its cast-iron superstructure under an ever-increasing volume of ...

American Bridge Company

This was site of American Bridge Co. Largest steel fabricating plant in the world. Division of U.S. Steel Corp. erected 1903. During W.W. II Marine Dept. built LST landing crafts here. Closed April 1983.

Marker is at the intersection of 8th ...

Old Stockbridge Grist Mill

In 1640 Isaac Stedman dammed up First Herring Brook and beside the pond thus formed, constructed the first water driven grist mill in the old colony. The mill owned and operated by the Stockbridge and Clapp families until 1922 was ...

Charles Richard Drew Memorial Bridge

Named in honor of

Dr. Charles Richard Drew, 1904-1950

esteemed citizen

of the

District of Columbia

athlete, scholar, surgeon, and

scientist whose discoveries in

blood preservation saved

thousands of lives.

Marker is at the intersection of Michigan Avenue, NE and ...

The Borden Bridge

Across this bridge, during the Civil War, Gail Borden Jr.’s New York Condensed Milk Company shipped condensed milk to the Union Troops.

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 6) and Peaceable Hill Road, on the left when traveling ...

Hannah’s Creek Bridge

Saving the Colors

(Preface): The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the “March to the Sea.” Sherman's objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in ...

Cumberland Valley Railroad Bridge

The coming of the railroad to Harrisburg in 1836 led to the construction of the first bridges to span the Susquehanna, since the building of the Camelback Bridge in 1817, which planted the seed for what would become the city's ...